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Good Dog: Season 1, Episode 2Converting to Judaism (6 Mar. 2011)
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Reviews: 1 user George has a major crisis of faith when Claire announces plans to convert to Judaism. Director:Ken Finkleman |
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| Ieva Lucs | ... | ||
| Linda Kash | ... |
Marla
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Jeff Glickman | ... |
Martin the Butcher
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Christian Kelley | ... |
Video Store Guy
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Rabbi
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Marcia Diamond | ... |
Female Customer
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Jack Newman | ... |
Butcher
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Peter Sawyer | ... |
Vet
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George (Ken Finkleman) is stunned when Claire (Lauren Lee Smith) announces her intention to convert to Judaism. Worse, he discovers she's been meeting with his Rabbi to discuss the process. Since he defines his own Jewishness as closer to neurosis than religion, he admires her agnostic upbringing void of guilt, war and negative associations. But she's in pursuit of a more spiritual life and won't be assuaged. Meanwhile, Erica (Ieva Lucs) the nanny is disgusted with George for bringing salami into her all-organic household. Unbeknownst to her or Claire, the salami is not only his guilty treat, but also secret salvation to calm and befriend Bruno, the Rottweiler. He gleefully restocks his supply at the butcher when he picks up a side of beef for a determined Claire to make brisket. After conferring with Doug, (Jason Weinberg) who agrees that Claire's conversion is a bad idea, George is even more convinced that the success of their relationship depends on their differences of faith. ... Written by Shaftesbury Films
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The first episode of Good Dog was pretty derivative of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The second episode was too but was also much less superficial than CYE is.
The episode offers a pretty funny distillation of the world view of a certain type of secular Jewish man. George clearly considers himself Jewish but doesn't really want to do anything Jewish, beyond eating the odd bagel. He has vigorous antipathy to organized Judaism in any form, particularly Jewish holidays with family. Thus, he is horrified when his live-in girlfriend announces her intention to convert. Her non-Jewishness is a key feature of her appeal. He tries to persuade his girlfriend that her complete lack of religious identity is a wonderful religious heritage. George devises various stratagems to put her off Judaism, such as introducing her to his kosher-style butcher and his cousin, whom he hopes his girlfriend will find loud and overbearing.